Bethanne Patrick
@TheBookMaven
Angry feminist, lifelong depressive, stalwart ally. Critic @LATimes, more. Teaches: @WriteinDC Speaking @TuesdayAgency Podcast, book, social links below⤵️
LIT SIRENS ON!!! Random House, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group, will publish Vigil, a new novel by the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author George Saunders, on January 27, 2026.
Harriet the Spy
If you could swap lives with any book character for a day, who would it be?
Season 3 is live! Listen to my interview with Martha Anne Toll on substack: thebookmavenunbound.substack.com/p/the-practice…
LIT SIRENS ON 🚨🚨🚨 Amazon Buys Don Winslow’s Short Novel ‘Collision’ From Author’s New Collection THE FINAL SCORE In Major Deal; Jake Gyllenhaal To Star & Produce deadline.com/2025/06/jake-g…
LIT SIRENS ON 🚨🚨🚨 @VikingBooks to publish STAYING GOLD: THE ORAL HISTORY OF THE OUTSIDERS by Danny Boy O’Connor, founder of The Outsiders House Museum + Tulsa World pop culture writer Jimmie Tramel, on S. E. Hinton's 1967 groundbreaking novel to the blockbuster film. 11/25
LIT SIRENS ON 🚨🚨🚨 The 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction was won by Yael van der Wouden for THE SAFEKEEP: an unsettling, tightly-plotted debut novel which explores repressed desire and historical amnesia set against the backdrop of the Netherlands post-WWII.
We Get the Non-Fiction We Deserve: From AI Empires to Wokeness Critiques to a Year Without Sex , by @TheBookMaven @ajkeen open.substack.com/pub/keenon/p/w… Do we get the nonfiction we deserve? LATimes book critic Bethanne Patrick wrestles with this question through five new books that…
We Get the Serial Killers & Heroes We Deserve: From a WW2 French Sisterhood to American Male Psychos, by @ajkeen @TheBookMaven open.substack.com/pub/keenon/p/w… Do we get the serial killers & heroes we deserve? The always generous literary critic Bethanne Patrick uses five new…
I just learned this about Susan Brownmiller today. It’s horrifying and undermines the importance of her work which I admit I’ve cited myself
Susan Brownmiller blamed Emmett Till for his own lynching just because he whistled near a white woman. She claimed the Scottsboro case vilified WW who lied & falsely accused Black teens of rape.Pls stop uplifting WW’s legacies at the expense of Black & brown ppl’s lives & history
#Summer #Mystery picks from me over @OprahDaily: oprahdaily.com/entertainment/…
Get your reading engines started. . .
🏖️📚SUMMER READING SEASON 😎☀️ officially kicks off this weekend, and here is @lauriemuchnick with a helpful preview of coming attractions! (You can thank her later 😉) ow.ly/nQ5w50VVTkF @doubledaybooks @tjenkinsreid @randomhouse @veschwab @torbooks
(In the vein of "that's what she said") . . .when we have privilege.
Be mindful that we, most times, have a choice on how to respond to life’s demands.
New look for our newsletter this week! thebookmavenunbound.substack.com/p/they-cant-ta…
This is so important. Finding a Virginia venue for our daughter's wedding meant crossing out A LOT of places connected to enslavement. We found a beautiful spot that was built by a Yankee in the 1930s. That doesn't mean it's free of racism, but it's better than a plantation.
Shoutout to Whitney Plantation, who has always BANNED WEDDINGS at their location and allowed the entire facility and its grounds to be an indoor and outdoor museum. It also houses the genealogical records for over 100,000 enslaved people. You can search for your loved ones in…
I've never wanted a strike to happen more in my life. All solidarity with NJ Transit Engineers!
Math Problem: If women radicalize with age and I've aged a decade since the 2025 inauguration, how radical am I now?
Absolutely disgusting action by DT and yet, sadly, it was only a matter of time.
President Trump has fired the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden. The position of Librarian of Congress is so apolitical that only 14 people have held the role since 1802. Hayden, who was the first woman and Black American to serve as Librarian of Congress, has held the…
I can't wait for the big reveal, if only the new Pope got to design robes of their own in the style of the Met Gala
Full steam ahead? Or big scream ahead? Hmmm. . .
BREAKING We have a Pope!!!
Newsletters are back! With a twist. Read up on our new focus here: open.substack.com/pub/thebookmav…
